A Code Transformation Method For Strong Migration Mobile Agent

In order to keep high efficiency, high reliability, and fault tolerance in a distributed processing system, we have been developing an autonomic distributed processing system by using a Java-based mobile agent system. Since we used a mobile agent system based on a weak migration mobility in our system, it was difficult for users to write an agent program freely which can resume its process on destination computer from the point at which it stopped just before moving. In this paper, we propose a new source code transformation method for any strong migration mobile agent code. The method can transform the source code, which is easy to write for users, into the code to be executed on the ordinary JavaVMs (Java Virtual Machines).